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...hall. In Russia, a local car, which we are forbidden to enter, hitches onto out tail. Other than that secret compartment, we may stroll the length of the train, peeping into second-class berths (fancy slipcovers) and first (two beds, an armchair, a hose shower, and a private toilet). Even in third class, however, there is toilet paper, a genuine luxury...
...BOILED HER BABY AND ATE IT," read the full-page headline on the front of a recent Boston tabloid. Everyone who picked it up had the same reaction: they saw the lipstick-red banner head at the top, they read the teasers running down the left-hand column ("Toilet paper beauty linked to Teddy's past? page 3"), and they said this is it--the Boston Herald-American has sunk to an all-time...
...most of the new outfit's self styled leaders are equally out to lunch A mere two or three expressed concrete ideas. Several, ludicrously enough, based their candidacies on their "experience" in the pathetic Student Assembly that went belly-up last spring, its singular accomplishment being its securing of toilet paper for the River Houses several years back. Most spoke in only the most banal of generalizations and platitudes...
...earlier films (Barrier, Hands Up, The Shout), Skolimowski has sometimes been too ready to sacrifice social feeling for a quicksilver cinematic intelligence. Moonlighting has its share of incongruous images (a flowerpot Nowak discovers in a toilet bowl) and gorgeous ones (a sweetly comic Degas overtone as one of the laborers reposes in a bathtub), but every shot is there to serve, heighten, reveal. The mundane and the surreal are one: Nowak sees images of his beloved, perhaps unfaithful wife Anna in a store window, on TV, naked in a cellar apartment. She is the vision-memory of all the hopes...
...government: The Undergraduate Council, the University's first officially recognized student government in years, gets underway this fall, and students are scheduled to vote for representatives in October. The council will replace the pathetic Student Assembly, known for its ludicrously low attendance and for one singular accomplishment: securing additional toilet paper for the River Houses...